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Application Integration

SNS (Simple Notification Service)

A fully managed messaging service for both application-to-application (A2A) and application-to-person (A2P) communication. Supports pub/sub messaging with topics for fan-out to multiple subscribers.

Related Application Integration Terms

API Gateway

A fully managed service that makes it easy to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale. Supports REST APIs, HTTP APIs, and WebSocket APIs.

AppSync

A fully managed service that develops GraphQL and Pub/Sub APIs. Simplifies application development by creating a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from multiple sources.

Dead Letter Queue (DLQ)

A queue that receives messages that cannot be processed successfully. Used with SQS, SNS, Lambda, and EventBridge to isolate problematic messages for debugging without blocking the main processing pipeline.

EventBridge

A serverless event bus that connects your applications with data from AWS services, SaaS apps, and your own applications. Build event-driven architectures with rules to route events to targets.

FIFO Queue

A type of SQS queue that guarantees messages are processed exactly once, in the exact order they are sent. Supports message groups for parallel ordered processing within the same queue.

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